FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/13/2012
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UPDATE: Al Gore will be on Reddit answering questions Thursday, be sure to ask him if he knows about WUWT-TV, and why he hasn’t taken down the faked Climate 101 video yet:
Former Vice President Al Gore will be conducting an IAmA this thursday (11/15) at 1 PM Eastern Time! You can see his tweet confirming it here. So get your questions ready for the man who spent 8 years in the Clinton White House, ran against George W. Bush (and beat him in the popular vote), and is now one of America’s leading advocates for the environment. He will be posting in /r/IAmA, so save your questions for Thursday.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/134y12/former_vice_president_al_gore_will_be_visiting/
UPDATE2: The press release below hit PR Newswire here.
UPDATE3: The schedule has been posted here.
NOTE: A link to the live webcast will appear here at the top of WUWT shortly before the broadcast starts ~ 4:50PM PST/7:50PM EST
WUWT-TV to debut on November 14th to counter Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather Telethon” on November 14th and 15th starting at 8PM EST (5PM PST)
Al Gore is forming another 24 hour media event on November 14th, focusing on “dirty energy=dirty weather”, which you can read about here.
WUWT Editor Anthony Watts says:
It is yet another example of what has been called “Tabloid Climatology” trying to use the once forbidden “weather is not climate” meme. Now almost any weather event seems to be used as “proof” of a global warming influence where just a few years ago the idea was laughed at by climate activists.
Journalists should take note that the largest and most prestigious scientific journal in the world, Nature, has come down squarely against the kind of claims Mr. Gore is making in his previews saying:
Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/extreme-weather-1.11428
Mr. Gore’s program is yet another transparent politically based attempt to link climate and weather, and to make people fearful of common weather events that we’ve seen all throughout history. WUWT hosted a 24 hour counter event last year, thanks to the talents of our contributing cartoonist, Josh. You can review that here.
Last year, during his “24 Hours of Climate Reality”, Mr. Gore created a video called “Climate 101” in which he purported to show a laboratory experiment showing the warming effects of CO2. Unfortunately it was discovered that Mr. Gore fabricated the experimental results using video post production techniques. You can read about it and see the evidence here:
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Due to Mr. Gore broadcasting fabricated and impossible to replicate science experiments, and then failing to correct the video even when glaringly obvious falsifications were pointed out, and partly due to WUWT’s founder Anthony Watts recent interview (and backlash) on PBS Newshour, a donor has stepped forward and offered to equip WUWT for professional Live TV over the Internet and has purchased a complete web enabled TV studio setup for use this year, seen here.
It includes two cameras, live video over net input, and live graphics/slideshow input.
It has been tested and has succeeded a 24 hour live web broadcast burn in period. When in production, the WUWT-TV web channel will have all of the elements of a professional TV production. While it won’t match the well-funded technical quality of Mr. Gore’s CurrentTV operations, it will offer a wide variety of viewpoints to counter the claims that “weather is now climate” that Mr. Gore is making.
During the live event Wednesday and Thursday, WUWT-TV will be able to conduct live video interviews via Skype online video, plus will feature simultaneous PowerPoint presentations run in high quality HD to go with the live interview, while the guest narrates. These can be full screen or split screen depending on the setting.
Guest presentations will be pre-loaded into the live on-air system, and to facilitate remote control, WUWT has engineered a remote ‘web clicker’ that allows guest presenters to control their presentation from their end, using a web page with a forward and back button on it.
WUWT-TV has invited a number of individuals to give presentations. A list follows.
SCHEDULED TO APPEAR:
Andrew Montford (Author of The Hockey Stick Illusion)
Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan professor of Meteorology, MIT)
Marc Morano (Climate Depot)
John Coleman (Founder of the Weather Channel, now at KUSI-TV)
Chris Horner (Senior Fellow, Center for Energy and Environment, CEI)
Steve McIntyre (editor of ClimateAudit.org)
Dr. Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph)
Dr. Roy Spencer (co author of UAH global temperature dataset)
Joe D’Aleo (Certified Consulting Meteorologist, WeatherBell)
Joe Bastardi (Lead forecaster, Weatherbell)
Senator Jim Inhofe (retiring from Senate EPW )
Bob Tisdale (author of Who Turned on The Heat?)
Dr. Ryan Maue (meteorologist, Tropical storm specialist, Weatherbell)
Burt Rutan, (Engineer and Aviation Pioneer)
Dr. Sebastian Lüning (co-author of Die kalte Sonne)
Harold Ambler (Author of Don’t Sell Your Coat)
Donna Laframboise (Author of The Delinquent Teenager)
Pat Michaels (former State climatologist of Virgina, fellow of the Cato institute)
Pete Garcia (Producer of the movie The Boy Who Cried Warming)
Christopher Monckton (SPPI)
Dr. Timothy Ball (climate scientist, commentator)
John Kehr (Author of the book, The Inconvenient Skeptic)
Dr. David Evans (Author of The Skeptics Case)
Dr. David Stockwell (Climate Modeller)
Mike Smith (Certified Consulting Meteorologist)
Steve Mosher and Tom Fuller (authors, The CRUtape Letters)
Kenji (member – Union of Concerned Scientists)
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For Questions – Contact WUWT-TV staff here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
A schedule for speakers will be posted on WUWT the day of the event, along with important updates. Check www.wattsupwiththat.com for details.
Starts 09.00 Thursday morning here in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. Plus 08.00 in Thailand.
Guaranteed a good days viewing, hopefully.
I am running an Apple MacBook with OS X 10.8.2 and Chrome browser and WUWT-TV is running well without a hitch so far. More problematically is getting my VLC to record the stream to my USB hard disk. Anyone with VLC experience ?
Good to see the thread being hijacked by mosher-snark. If you can, Anthony, move his segment to 3am est. Best of luck on the broadcast. Break a hockeystick.
Windows xp home, older computer, Firefox 16.0.2 browser. No problems with the test stream. Make sure to check and monitor the lip sync, it can drift over time. Good luck Anthony!
How much is that in GMT?
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John Eggert says:
November 13, 2012 at 8:32 am
I would quible with the cartoon at the top. There is observational / empirical evidence for how much the global temperature is warmed by CO2 (all other things being equal). It is the basis for mass balance calculations in blast furnaces. These too are based on calculations and models.
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Yes John, many engineers here, including myself, are well aware of this. Where I worked the coal-fired boilers were radiational boilers — much or most of the total heat-transfer occurred in the boiler-proper by radiation, not convection. CO2 levels in the boiler-proper were 12-14% — far more than atmospheric levels. Water vapor was obviously present in significant amounts too. The designs of these type boilers HAD to employ the radiational characteristics of these IR gases for proper construction. This is old-school…
Hey warmers, do I have to accept the Hockey Stick, massaged data, activist written IPCC reports, and Hide-the-decline as valid scientific evidence too?
Proghole politicians promise to spend billions (and tax us trillions) to limit CO2 but they have NO way of calculating what the actual effect. How stupid are we to allow this?
I too run Mac Mini on OSX.8.2 but with Safari browser. I an using MacX Youtube Downloader – http://www.macxdvd.com/free-youtube-video-downloader-mac/
I find it very good once you get the hang of it.
It converts into Quicktime or VLC.
Thanks John, you’re a peach.
davidmhoffer says:
November 13, 2012 at 9:53 pm
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Further, your claim that we know by experiment and field measurement exactly how LW and CO2 interact in the atmosphere is also false. We cannot know by experiment because, as I tried to point out to you, it is impossible to build an apparatus that simulates the atmospheric air column.
I would surmise that even if we could either build such an apparatus or create a model that precisely reflects what physically happens in that atmospheric air column the fact that every atmospheric air column on Earth is constantly changing would make any result from that experiment/model extremely difficult to relate to what actually is happening.
If, for example, we determined it would take 30 minutes for the temperature of that column to stabilize (accepting that with no other outside influences it would) since virtually every millisecond the actual atmospheric column’s characteristics would be changing, the minor effect of CO2 may never be discernible. The theoretical maximum amount of warming that a certain level of atmospheric CO2 would cause would never be realized and may very well not be measureable with modern equipment if at all.
richardscourtney says:
“Friends:
But remember that Anthony’s cartoon is not about the existence of warming: it is about the lack of evidence for the magnitude warming induced by “extra CO2″.”
I agree there’s woefully insufficient evidence for making any sort of solid conclusion on what the magnitude of warming induced by extra CO2 might be, but I still think it’s a bridge too far to say there’s no empirical or observational evidence at all. I just don’t want us skeptics becoming or coming across as being the deniers we’re always accused of being and certainly wouldn’t want us to hand (on a silver platter) evidence that we deny even one iota of empirical/observational evidence to the alarmists. I believe it is of the upmost importance that we are and appear to both the casual observer and new questioners of the establishment to be the ones looking at the big picture and considering ALL the evidence. We need to be absolutely clear that there isn’t any evidence that is required to be ignored in order to be skeptical of the alarmist position.
This is weird, as for the first time in agood few years I have to work tonight, but I hope to catch most of the broadcast when I get back from around 1am!
break a leg, or whatever….
What a lot of discussion on the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere. Can I add my layman thoughts? I read that 46% of energy of incoming sunlight is IR. Therefore CO2 must be absorbing all it can at 2.7 and 4.3 microns while the sun is shining. Looking at the temperature and energy levels it seems CO2 if far more effective at shielding the surface from IR that has some real heating effect during daylight compared to the ‘warming by backradiation’ in the 15 micron band at night. Especially as 15 micron radiation can only warm things up to -80C. Certainly not that cold where I live.
@Robin Hewitt says:
“…Looks like the moment he shouts, “Pi is exactly 3″. Which of course it can be, depending on your choice of units….”
Umm… Pi is a static ratio – it has no units. I think that the only way you could get it to be exactly 3 would be if you were to modify some aspect of the dimensionality of our universe – perhaps the spacial curvature?
Anthony asks about corrections to Gore’s experiment and that’s fair enough, but I am more concerned about the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”.
A UK court ruled it could only be shown in schools if teachers identified the political bias and the nine scientific errors. Is that happening? The government produced the brochures, but I doubt they are being used. Gore incorrectly claimed the court ruled in his favour. It didn’t.
http://drtimball.com/2012/al-gore-and-ipcc-nobel-peace-prize-winners-found-guilty-before-and-after-award/
In addition, people identified many other errors.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
To my knowledge these errors have not been corrected. The movie is still for sale on his web site.
http://www.algore.com/
I also understand it is still being used by Gore trained ‘disciples’ around the world.
Contrast this with the action of Martin Durkin, producer of “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, who withheld at is own expense, release of the DVD until one very small adjustment to a graph was made.
Gore is calling for social responsibility, but apparently fails to meet his own by continuing to distribute an inaccurate movie. Now that’s an inconvenient truth.
@ur momisugly 8:28, Tim Ball suggests, re Gore Film, “I also understand it is still being used by Gore trained ‘disciples’ around the world.”
UNFCCC Exec. Sec’y, C. Figueres may well be a disciple: her CV states she was trained by Gore. Her appointment satisfied two quotas: a woman from a non-developed state. What happens when the ‘Framework’ – Kyoto Treaty – expires in January 2013?
Two points: 1). Ustream test works well on iPhone 4S.
2). @beng 11-14-12 at 6:31 am,
Exactly right. Fired furnace design calculations include CO2 and water vapor in the combustion gases. There are literally millions of such furnaces operating daily, and they have done so for at least the past 100 years. (I’m a chemical engineer)
lazy: your
Hmmmm, let me see now. If scientist makes empirical observations related to CO2 climate sensitivity, as soon as those observations are touched by the filthy arithmetic they become invalid.
Good one guys!
Except that they don’t use empirical data. They use parameterized models only as proof, with a large sensitivity one of the parameters.
Almost all studies on empirical sensitivity show a small or even negative sensitivity.
Why do you need to prove your name each posting?
Addendum to comment on CO2 in fired furnaces: CO2’s radiative effects occur in all of them. Repeat, all. Not in a select fraction, and ignoring the others. Atmospheric CO2 plays favorites, completely ignoring some cities, counties, and entire regions.
I posted the Webcast information to several news outlets including CNN, Fox News, Forbes, The Hill, and several stations in Alaska and Hawaii. I also posted on Climate Etc. and JoNova.
I’ll continue posting until the program starts.
Greetings Mr. President Obama,
I have been watching your first official press conference since your reelection.
i heard you make a number of statements regarding Climate Change which are not true.
I would suggest, Sir, that you are receiving some bad advice.
I humbly suggest that it might be in your (and the nation’s) best interest to re- evaluate how you are advised on this matter.
Geez- first ever message to an actual President and misspell my own name…
teh horror!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/20/bbc-climate-change-science-coverage
Ian Sample, science correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 JULY 2011
BBC gives too much weight to fringe views on issues such as climate change,
The BBC is to revamp its science coverage after an independent review highlighted weaknesses and concluded that journalists boosted the apparent controversy of scientific news stories such as climate change, GM crops and the MMR vaccine by giving too much weight to fringe scientific viewpoints.
The wide-ranging review found the network’s science reporting was generally of high quality, and praised the BBC for its breadth, depth and accuracy, but urged the broadcaster to tackle several areas of concern.
Commissioned last year to assess impartiality and accuracy in BBC science coverage across television, radio and the internet, the review said the network was at times SO DETERMINED TO BE IMPARTIAL that it put fringe views on a par with well-established fact: a strategy that made some scientific debates appear more controversial than they were.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/11/climate_sceptics.html
Climate sceptics
By Richard Black and Roger Harrabin.
Two significant climate conferences in the next few weeks offer the BBC a huge opportunity to improve our audiences’ understanding of this fraught and complex issue but they also present a challenge to the BBC to ensure that we report impartially. Because if we do not have a strong grasp of the fundamentals of the climate debate we risk presenting our audiences with a set of opinions which is out-dated, DRIVEN BY SPIN OR SIMPLY WRONG.
http://bbcinstitutionalbias.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/BBC%20bias
UKIP activists politely drew these facts to the BBC’s attention in the hope of fairer coverage. They misunderstood the Corporation’s mindset. In Beebworld, Greens are essentially nice, and deserve a fair crack of the whip. But UKIP are anti-immigration, anti-Brussels and, worst of all, sceptical about climate change. They are not Our Sort Of People, and should be covered accordingly, if at all.
Newsnight, Look East and Radio 4 all chose to disregard UKIP and treat the Greens as the main story. Three days before the poll, the BBC’s Eastern region TV held a hustings meeting for four candidates: Conservative, Labour, LibDem and Green.
What was the result in the event? UKIP won 11.8 per cent of the vote – comfortably ahead of the Greens and remarkably close to the LibDems (or “worryingly close” as I just heard a Radio 5 Live presenter put it).
Did our state broadcaster apologise for its mistake? No, alright, that would have been expecting too much; but was it, at least, a little abashed in its tone? Nope. It simply edited UKIP out of its coverage. On the one o’clock news, a little bar chart came up to represent the results: blue for the Conservatives, red for Labour, yellow for the LibDems and, er, green for the fifth-placed Greens. The party that had come fourth, and been just 800 votes behind the LibDems, wasn’t represented. Nor was UKIP mentioned on the contemporaneous radio news.
Talk about brainwashing,
Global climate change a Catholic responce.
Read activity #1: Climate change situations.
http://www.ncrlc.com/admin/uploads/forms/GCC%20Catholic%20Response%20(final).pdf
I can here what sounds like conversations regarding setup on the Ustream video channel. It just changed to background music.
ROBUK says:
November 14, 2012 at 11:46 am
Talk about brainwashing,……
Access to the link is denied.
Here we go : )
Webcast information set to the following:
International Herald Tribune
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Washington Times
USA Today
Newsweek
Time Magazine
U.S. News and World Report
Associated Press
Reuters
UPI
MSNBC
NBC News
PBS: The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
CBS Radio
NPR: All Things Considered and Talk of The Nation
Should I cover Europe as well?